"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks." — Harper Lee

The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.

It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class southern life.

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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.